Data D. Barata is a professor of cultural anthropology at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches courses in cultural diversity, ethnographic analysis, anthropology of human rights, anthropology of war, peoples and cultures of Africa, anthropological theory, ethnology and cultural anthropology. His research agenda is centered on understanding connections between identity, power, and inequality as manifested in the material conditions of multiple identity-bearing persons. He has published extensively on contemporary issues.Raghuraman S. Trichur is a professor of cultural anthropology at California State University, Sacramento, where he contributes to the administration of Sacramento State's Black Honors College and serves as Vice Director of the Asian Studies Program. His teaching and research focus on comparative political economy, state and class formation in South Asia, racism, racial formation, and social inequities in the United States. Strongly influenced by critical anthropology and progressive Black intellectual traditions, his scholarly work informs his teaching and commitment to critical pedagogies.